Contributors

NadaAwad is Palestinian, born in Jerusalem. She currently works as an assistant researcher in the Muwatin Institute for Democracy and Human Rights in Birzeit University. She holds a Master’s degree in International Relations, International Security from Sciences Po Paris. She was previously responsible for the Advocacy unit at the Community Action Center (Al-Quds University), where she focused on the issue of forcible transfer of Palestinians from Jerusalem. She has also worked as an archival researcher at the Institute for Palestine Studies.

Andy Clarno is assistant professor of Sociology and African American Studies and interim director of the Social Justice Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research examines racism, capitalism, colonialism, and empire in the early 21st century. Andy’s new book, Neoliberal Apartheid (University of Chicago Press 2017), analyzes the political, economic, and social changes in South Africa and Palestine/Israel since 1994. It addresses the limitations of liberation in South Africa, highlights the impact of neoliberal restructuring in Palestine/Israel, and argues that a new form of neoliberal apartheid has emerged in both regions.

Nell Gabiam is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Political Science at Iowa State University. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology in 2008 from the University of California, Berkeley. From 2004 to 2006, she conducted ethnographic fieldwork in the Palestinian Refugee Camps of Ein el Tal, Neirab, and Yarmouk in Syria. More recently she has conducted fieldwork in Lebanon, Jordan,Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, France, and Sweden on Palestinians who have been displaced by the ongoing war in Syria.

Sarah Kanbar earned her J.D. in 2016 from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, with a concentration in international legal studies. While at law school, Sarah interned at the California Office of Legislative Counsel and the Federal Public Defender’s Office. She received her B.A. in history from the University of California, Berkeley, focusing on the relationship between the United States and the Middle East. Sarah previously published “Rooted in Our Homeland: The Construction of Syrian American Identity” in American Multicultural Studies (Sage, 2012) and articles in Muftah and Kalimat Magazine.

Al-Shabaka Guest Author Maren Mantovani is the international relations coordinator for the Stop the Wall Campaign and the international outreach coordinator for the Land Defense Coalition, a network of Palestinian social movements. She serves on the secretariat of the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) National Committee, the umbrella organization promoting the call for BDS. She has published several studies on Israeli military relations and corporate complicity.

Khalil Nakhleh is a Palestinian anthropologist from the Galilee, Israel/Palestine, with a Ph.D. from Indiana University, US. His main academic and applied preoccupations focused on how to transform Palestinian society and people from an occupied, colonized, and fragmented society to a liberated, productive, free, and self-generating society, not dependent on external financial aid. Dr. Nakhleh has authored a number of academic books and articles on Palestinian society, development, NGOs, and education, in English and Arabic. The Red Sea Press published his latest book, Globalized Palestine: The National Sell-out of a Homeland, in 2012. He may be reached at [email protected].

Dr. Esther Rappaport is a clinical psychologist practicing independently in Tel Aviv. She teaches and writes on critical psychology, psychoanalytic theory, culture and gender. She is an anti-Occupation activist with the Coalition of Women for Peace (CWP) and a member of its board, as well as an activist with Psychoactive - Mental Health Professionals for Human Rights. CWP is a Tel Aviv-based feminist organization that resists the Israeli Occupation and colonial policies in the region and supports the Palestinian right of return. The organization has conducted in-depth research into the Occupation economy (the Who Profits project) and promotes economic activism as a tool of nonviolent resistance.

Vivien Sansour is a writer, producer, and photographer living in Beit Jala. She has worked with farmers in the field for over six years, capturing their stories for the wider world. She is currently a doctoral candidate for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at North Carolina State University.

Rosemary Sayigh is the author of Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries (1979); Too Many Enemies: the Palestinian Experience in Lebanon (1994); Voices: Palestinian Women Narrate Displacement. She currently teaches oral history and anthropology at the Center for Arab and Middle East Studies, AUB.

Cecilie Surasky is the Deputy Director of Jewish Voice for Peace, a national grassroots organization dedicated to promoting a US foreign policy in the Middle East based on peace, democracy, human rights and respect for international law. A former newspaper columnist, talk radio host and communications consultant, Cecilie's analyses of Israel-Palestine politics have appeared in numerous media outlets around the world. Cecilie graduated from Brown University with a BA in Religious Studies with special honors in Modern Culture and Media. She is the editor of Muzzlewatch, JVP's acclaimed blog documenting efforts to silence open debate about Israel-Palestine policy.

Mandy Turner is the director of the Kenyon Institute (Council for British Research in the Levant) in East Jerusalem. She works on the political economy of development in war-torn societies with a country focus on the occupied Palestinian territory. She is co-editor of The Palestinian People and the Political Economy of De-development: Contesting Colonization, Negating Neoliberalism (with O. Shweiki), Routledge, 2013 (forthcoming), and co-editor of Whose Peace? Critical Perspectives on the Political Economy of Peacebuilding (with M. Pugh and N. Cooper), PalgraveMacmillan, 2011. Mandy received her PhD from the London School of Economics and was a founder member of the journal Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory.

Ben White is a journalist, analyst and author, whose articles on Palestine and Israel have been published by Al Jazeera, The Independent's Independent Voices, Middle East Monitor, Newsweek Middle East, The Guardian's Comment is free, Middle East Eye, The National, Electronic Intifada, and others. His books include Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide, Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy, and The 2014 Gaza War: 21 Questions & Answers. Ben has worked as a researcher for the Journal of Palestine Studies, and currently does editing work for the Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies. He has appeared as an analyst on Al Jazeera English, TRT World, and Islam Channel.

Rami Zurayk is professor of Ecosystem Management in the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences at the American University of Beirut (AUB), and author of Food, Farming and Freedom: Sowing the Arab Spring, and War Diary: Lebanon 2006, among other titles. He is a longtime activist for political and social justice. Zurayk's current research focuses on the relationship between landscapes and livelihoods, on food politics, and on local food systems. After the July 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon, he created a post-war development program, Land and People, to aid in livelihood recovery. He blogs at "Land and People" and tweets at @ramizurayk.

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